joining me phil dennis, founder of the dallas tea party. welcome back to the show. great to have you, bill. >> (applause). >> mike: it seems like the tea party has been a little quieter than it was in 2010 when all of those town hall meetings erupted with people who were letting their congressmen know they didn't like obamacare and didn't like the deficit and the debt. has the tea party diminished, gone quiet underground or disappeared? >> what we've been doing is working from being enraged in 2009 when the tea party started to being actively engaged and taken, basically political novices, most the people in the tea parties and members around the countriment now around 41 million that support the tea party principles are people that work, take care of their kids and go to the football games like we saw with the congressman in idaho, and not people who spent a great deal of time in politics and haven't had time in the past and that's changed now and turned those political know novices into fully engaged and fully functioning political activists in the field. >> mike: